It doesn’t take a mathematician to add a simple sum: With ISIL all but defeated and other US-backed terror proxy forces mostly boiled down to just the Idlib province and a few smaller enclaves, the Syrian government and its allies have effectively won the war.

“About 600 gunmen from the neighborhood are waiting for buses to arrive in the direction of the Syrian north,” a source close to the local council in the south of Damascus told the armed groups, who declined to be named.

One of the largest US-backed rebel groups in southern Syria has quit the Anti-ISIS Coalition after a tiff with their US sponsors over their refusal to support their fight against the Syrian government.

The last batch of militants and their family members are being transported from the Barzeh suburb of east Damascus to the Idlib Governorate, per the agreement put in place between the government and Islamist rebels.

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